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What Na Hong-jin Has Been Waiting For: On Hope and the Grammar of Alien Evil
Na Hong-jin returns after ten years with Hope, premiering at Cannes in May. The director who made evil illegible is now making it literally alien.
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What Park Chan-wook Knows About Revenge That the Western Pretends Not To
Park Chan-wook is making an American western with S. Craig Zahler. The director who spent his career showing what revenge costs is bringing that argument home to the genre that made revenge clean.
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The Illegible Interior: On Jane Schoenbrun's Cinema
Jane Schoenbrun's films are about the experience of knowing something about yourself that no external framework can accommodate. A pre-Cannes reading of I Saw the TV Glow and what Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will do with it.
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What Kore-eda Has Been Building Toward
Kore-eda's filmography is a sustained argument about constructed family. Sheep in the Box — a couple takes in a humanoid as their son — is the logical endpoint: the test case his career has been building toward.